*OT* "And they used to call the Mets amazing"......
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In 101 seasons on the baseball earth -- several of which have turned out fairly happily -- the Yankees had never hit game-tying home runs with two outs in the ninth inning in back-to-back games. We're talking about more than 15,000 games, too, friends.
No team had ever won two games it trailed in the bottom of the ninth inning in the same World Series, let alone won two like that in two nights.
No team in 72 years had trailed a World Series game by two runs in the bottom of the ninth inning and won -- and then the Yankees did it two nights in a row.
Byung-Hyun Kim -- the Arizona closer who gave up these homers to Martinez and Brosius, plus Derek Jeter's 10th-inning game-winner Wednesday -- had given up two home runs all year to right-handed hitters. Both to Jeff Cirillo -- at Coors Field.
If these games were 26 outs long instead of 27, the Yankees would still have no two-run innings in this entire World Series. So how could they possibly have come from two runs behind with one out to play two nights in a row, on these mind-blowing two-run homers by Martinez and Brosius?
And as Brosius came to the plate with two outs in the ninth, this team full of champions and drama majors was 1 for the World Series (1 for 24) with runners in scoring position. Whereupon it then went 2 for its next 2 -- the game-tying hit by Brosius, the game-winner by Soriano.
Brosius, as was the case with Martinez the night before, is a free agent probably playing his final game as a Yankee in this stadium, so the schlock meter was at its all-time pinnacle.
Meanwhile, Brosius was 7 for 49 (.143) in the postseason, 21 for his last 101 (.208) over the last seven weeks. He'd hit one home run since July 26. And he then homered off a pitcher who'd held right-handed hitters to a .152 batting average. |
